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Impeachment trial subplot: Lacson eyes jail for 'disgraced' Cayetano

Published Jul 19, 2026 01:12 pm
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson (left), Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (Facebook)
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson (left), Senator Alan Peter Cayetano (Facebook)


Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson practically vowed to jail Senator Alan Peter Cayetano in what has transformed into a gripping subplot in the Senate impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte.
Lacson bared on Sunday, July 19 that he was building a case against "disgraced ex-Senate President", Cayetano.
The former Philippine National Police (PNP) made no bones about his desire to see his Senate colleague--who assailed his integrity in their continuing verbal tussle--behind bars.
“My integrity is my first and last line of defense and I will fight to defend it with all my might. Sen Cayetano has crossed the line by attacking it,” he said in a post on X.
“As of this morning, I’m still counting informants and witnesses, directly or through intermediaries, willing to provide information and evidence to put him in his proper place – the Payatas, QC jail,” he added.
In his Facebook livestream Saturday, Cayetano questioned the increase in Lacson's declared net worth, which he said seemed to have doubled based on his statement of assets liabilities and net worth (SALN) as of June 30, 2025.
Lacson didn't appreciate the insinuation of wrongdoing from Cayetano.
He said his integrity has always been his most prized possession, a value he nurtured and protected in his more than five decades in public service as law enforcer and lawmaker.
During his law enforcement career, Lacson maintained a “No-Take” policy, and rejecting hush and grease money from gambling lords and suppliers and contractors transacting with the PNP, which he headed from 1999 to 2001.
He also declined reward money from grateful relatives of kidnap victims he rescued.
As senator, Lacson did not partake of any form of “pork barrel” and rejected lobby money from some sectors in exchange for “favorable” legislation – in contrast to what he claimed as Cayetano’s P6.79 billion worth of “pork barrel”-like budget insertions under the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA).
“I’ve tasted power and I know how to handle power through personal experience. Hindi ako abusado at hindi ako corrupt na government official (I am neither abusive nor corrupt),” Lacson stressed.
Lacson clarified that his net worth almost quadrupled during the three years that he was out of government, having left the Senate on June 30, 2022.
He said he earned his “wealth” through legitimate means as reflected in his income tax returns (ITRs) for two consecutive taxable years in 2023 and 2024.
He likewise disclosed there are "ghost" flood control projects in Cayetano’s bailiwick of Taguig City, with the city engineer gambling away huge sums in Metro Manila casinos.
The Senate impeachment trial will resume tomorrow, July 20, with Lacson and Cayetano resuming their task as senator-judges who would either convict or acquit Duterte based on the articles of impeachment.

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